THE Baguio City cultural mapping project has recently concluded, tagging some 600 objects, sites and buildings as objects of interest worth including in cultural landscaping projects. Donna Rillera-Tabangin, head of the City Planning and Development Office (CPDO), said that the cultural mapping has catalogued the 600 items and placed them [...]
A 53-YEAR old engineer and person deprived of liberty (PDL) at the Baguio City Jail has developed a working solar-powered gasifier device during his time interred. “Rex,” whose real name has been withheld, developed the device after giving a proposal to jail management to let him more productively use his [...]
AN octogenarian Singaporean residing in Baguio City has recently become the oldest person to ever climb Mt. Apo, the tallest mountain of the Philippines. 80-year old Peter Chong, who lives in Baguio with his wife, began the ascent to the 2,954 meter-high peak of Mt. Apo from the Kapatagan starting [...]
THE local government of Baguio and the National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA) have entered into a memorandum of agreement (MOA) for the conservation and rehabilitation management of the Diplomat Hotel in advance of its redevelopment into a creative hub for the culture and arts of Baguio City. [...]
BAGUIO City launched the “Baguio Coffee and Rabbit Food Festival” on Friday, May 27 this year at the Igorot Garden. Held by the city government and the the City Veterinary and Agriculture Office (CVAO), the festival is intended to showcase and promote both Baguio Arabica coffee and rabbit meat. According [...]
By Kidlat Tahimik CONSIDER the possibility of moving our Independence Day to April 12, 1895- when Andres Bonifacio scribbled “Viva La Independencia Filipinas” at Pamitinan Cave (Montalban). That suggestion came from Ambeth Ocampo, my favorite historian (…after Yoyoy Villame, Siyempre!) He takes a second look at that overlooked date [...]
By: Consul General Maria Theresa SM. Lazaro SINCE I am not really an expert on the history of the Sto. Nino, I can only mention what I know from what I have read. The image of Sto. Nino must have originated in Spain in the early 16th century and [...]
THE National Commission on Culture and the Arts (NCCA) has provided Baguio City with a P15 million grant to develop a Conservation Management Plan (CMP) for the Dominican Hill Retreat House, also known as the Diplomat Hotel. The city council, through a resolution, has authorized Baguio Mayor Benjamin Magalong to [...]
FOR Catalina Pacyaan and her fellow souvenir stall proprietors, the day starts at seven o’clock in the morning. From that early hour on, the stalls along Wright Park are open until evening, hoping to bag sales from the tourists that pass by. Pacyaan has run her stall beside the tourist [...]
By Marilou Guieb INDEED we live in strange times. Troubled times. A life wreaked with havoc because of the pandemic COVID-19. Like a flip of the coin, life has changed drastically. And on many fronts, the phenomenon is seen as a disaster for people and world systems – health, industries, [...]
